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Peter Johnston
Group Finance Director
Peter, aged 43, became Group Finance Director of Vanco in September 2007.
He has a law degree from the University of Durham and qualified as
an ACA with KPMG in 1989. After leaving KPMG, he held finance positions with
BET plc and Shanks Group PLC. In 1995, he joined Thorn Lighting Group Ltd, which
was owned by a private equity group headed by Investcorp, where he carried out a
variety of roles including Group Planning Director, European Finance Director
and General Manager Central Europe. In 2001, he was placed by Investcorp as
Group Finance Director in The Polestar Group Limited ("Polestar"), Europe's
largest independent printer, with a remit to restructure the business. This
concluded in 2006 when he managed a £1.1 billion refinancing in which ownership
of Polestar passed from Investcorp to a banking syndicate comprising Bluebay, JP
Morgan and others. Since this transaction, Peter continued to work for
Polestar.
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